Virtuos

Virtuos Ltd

Type	Private
Industry	Digital entertainment
Founded	December 2004
Key people	Gilles Langourieux, CEO Pan Feng, Managing Director Andrey Supryaga, Managing Director Christophe Gandon, GM Europe
Number of employees	1000+
Website	www.virtuosgames.com

Virtuos Ltd. is a video game developer and a provider of digital entertainment production services for the game and movie industries. The company was founded in 2004. Virtuos has development centers in Shanghai, Chengdu, and Xi'an, China, and in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and offices in Paris, Vancouver and Tokyo.

Its services include 3D art, concept art and animation, full game co-development and adaptations, software engineering, sound design and QA testing. As a video game developer, Virtuos creates both parts of games as well as full game “co-development,” which includes porting and adaptations. Virtuos is a licensed developer on PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, NDS and PSP. Virtuos' clients include 15 of the top 20 digital entertainment publishers. Its clients include Activision, Electronic Arts, LucasArts, Microsoft, Sony, Square Enix, Ubisoft and Zynga. To date, Virtuos has co-developed two games noted more than 85 on Metacritic: Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster scored 85 on PS3 and PS Vita, and XCOM: Enemy Unknown scored 95 on iOS.

In September 2011, Virtuos acquired Sparx Animation Studios and added a Saigon development center dedicated to 3D animation, digital production for film and TV and game cinematics.

As a prominent game outsourcing company, Virtuos has occasionally found itself at the center of the debate about outsourcing’s impact on game-industry jobs in the west. When asked about the issue by gaming industry website Gamasutra in 2006, Gilles Langourieux, the CEO of Virtuos pointed to the extra number of man-months required to produce titles on new-gen platforms and the larger number of platforms to cover as the main reasons for the rise of outsourced production, stating that he "doesn't think it's a disservice to the industry in the West."